Distributive pronoun

Distributive pronoun

A distributive pronoun considers members of a group separately, rather than collectively.

They include each, any, either, neither and others.

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Biblical Hebrew

A common distributive idiom in Biblical Hebrew used an ordinary word for man, 'ish (איש). Brown Driver Briggs only provides four representative examples — Gn 9:5; 10:5; 40:5; Ex 12:3.[2] Of the many other examples of the idiom in the Hebrew Bible, the best known is a common phrase used to describe everyone returning to their own homes. It is found in 1 Samuel 10:25 among other places.[3]

  • איש לביתו
  • ... 'ish l'beyto.
  • ... a man to his house. [literal]
  • ... each went home. [sense]

This word, 'ish, was often used to distinguish men from women. "She shall be called Woman (אשה) because she was taken out of Man (איש)," is well known,[4] but the distinction is also clear in Gn 19:8; 24:16 and 38:25 (see note for further references).[5] However, it could also be used generically in this distributive idiom (Jb 42:11; I Ch 16:3).[6]

Greek

The most common distributive pronoun in classical Greek was hekastos (ἕκαστος, each).

See also

References

  1. ^ William Malone Baskervill and James Witt Sewell, An English Grammar, 1896.
  2. ^ Brown Driver Briggs: 36.
  3. ^ Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
  4. ^ King James Version of the Bible
  5. ^ Also Ex 22:15; Lv 15:16, 18; 20:10f; Nu 5:13f; Dt 22:22f; Is 4:1; and others. Brown Driver Briggs:35.
  6. ^ Brown Driver Briggs:36.

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